Microsoft Official Course

Module 12

Implementing Disaster Recovery

Module Overview

Overview of Disaster Recovery

Implementing Windows Server Backup
• Implementing Server and Data Recovery
Lesson 1: Overview of Disaster Recovery

Identifying Disaster Recovery Requirements

What Are Service Level Agreements?
Overview of Enterprise Disaster Recovery Strategies
Disaster Mitigation Strategies
• Best Practices for Implementing a Disaster
Recovery
Identifying Disaster Recovery Requirements

Identify your disaster recovery options by:

1. Defining organization critical resources
2. Identifying risks associated with those critical
resources
3. Identifying the time needed to complete the
recovery
4. Developing a recovery strategy
What Are Service Level Agreements?

SLAs define responsibilities of the service

provider
SLA components include:
• Hours of operation
• Service availability
• RPO and RTO
• Retention objectives
• System performance
Overview of Enterprise Disaster Recovery Strategies

You need strategies for recovering:

• Data
• Services
• Servers
• Sites
• Offsite backups
Disaster Mitigation Strategies

Risk of disaster Mitigation strategy

The media where a copy of the Have at least two copies of your
backup data is store becomes backup data
corrupted
An administrator has accidentally Protect OUs from accidental
deleted an OU that contains many deletion, especially after
user and computer objects migrations
A server in a branch office where Use DFS Replication to replicate
important files are located has files from branch offices to central
failed data centers
The virtualization infrastructure Avoid deploying all critical servers,
where business servers are located such as domain controllers, on the
is unavailable same virtual infrastructure
A major outage in a data center Deploy a secondary data center
has occurred that will contain replicas of most of
the critical servers in your primary
data center
Best Practices for Implementing a Disaster Recovery

To implement a disaster recovery strategy , you should:

• Perform a risk assessment plan
• Discuss the risks you evaluated with your business managers, and
create a disaster recovery strategy and disaster mitigation
strategy
• Ensure that each organization has its own disaster recovery plan
• Document all steps that should be performed in a disaster
scenario
• Test your disaster recovery plan on regular basis, in an isolated,
non-production environment.
• Evaluate your disaster recovery plan on a regular basis, and
update your disaster recovery plan depending on your evaluation
outcome
Lesson 2: Implementing Windows Server Backup

What Needs to be Backed Up?

Backup Types
Backup Technologies
Planning Backup Capacity
Planning Backup Security
What Is Windows Server Backup?
Demonstration: Configuring a Scheduled Backup
What Is Windows Azure Online Backup?
Considerations for an Enterprise Backup Solution
• What Is Data Protection Manager?
What Needs to Be Backed Up?

When planning your backup strategy, ensure that you:

• Determine the critical resources
• Verify your backups
• Confirm that backups are secure
• Ensure that compliance and regulatory responsibilities
are met
Backup Types

• A full backup is a block-level replica of all blocks

on all the server’s volumes
• An incremental backup is a copy of only those
blocks that have changed since the last full or
incremental backup
Backup Technologies

• The VSS backup technology solves data

consistency issues by creating shadow copies
• You can also use streaming backups for older
applications that are not VSS-aware
Planning Backup Capacity

When planning for backup capacity, consider

the following:
• Space requirements for a full backup
• Space requirements for an incremental backup
• Amount of time required to back up
• Backup frequency
•Backup retention
Planning Backup Security

When planning your backup security, consider

the following:
• Backups contain all organizational data
• Access to backup media means access to all
data
• Windows Server Backup does not encrypt
backups
• Keep backup media in a secure location
What Is Windows Server Backup?

You can use Windows Server Backup to:

• Back up full server (all volumes)
• Back up selected volumes
• Back up selected items
• Perform a bare-metal recovery
• Perform a system state
• Back up individual files and folders
• Exclude selected files or file types during backup
• Select from more storage locations for the backup
• Back up to Windows Azure platform
Demonstration: Configuring a Scheduled Backup

In this demonstration, you will see how to configure

Windows Server 2012 to perform a scheduled backup of
specific folders that includes a filter to exclude specific
file types
What Is Windows Azure Online Backup?

Windows Azure Online Backup features include:

• Simple configuration and management
• Block-level incremental backups
• Data compression, encryption, and throttling
• Data integrity verified in the cloud
• Configurable retention policies for storing data in the cloud

Back up
Considerations for an Enterprise Backup Solution

Considerations for an enterprise backup solution

are:
• What is the theoretical RPO of the product?
• How quick is RTO recovery?
• Does the solution provide centralized backup?
• Is the solution supported by vendors?
• What is the recovery point capacity?
What Is Data Protection Manager?

DPM:
• Allows you to centralize backups
• Offers 15-minute snapshots of servers and clients
• Can store backup data on SANs and export to tape
• Can back up remote sites
• Can be used as part of a backup-to-cloud strategy
• Supports Microsoft products
Lesson 3: Implementing Server and Data Recovery

Options for Server Recovery

Options for Server Restore
Options for Data Recovery
Demonstration: Using Windows Server Backup to
Restore a Folder
• Restoring with Windows Azure Online Backup
Options for Server Recovery

The options for server recovery include:

 Files and folders
 Applications and data
 Volumes
 Operating system
 Full server
 System state
Options for Server Restore

The server restore locations include:

• Original host: bare-metal restore
• New host: bare-metal restore
• Hyper-V: virtual machine restore
• Alternate boot-to-VHD
Options for Data Recovery

The four options for recovering data include:

• Allowing users to recover their own data
• Recovering data to an alternate location
• Recovering data to the original location
• Performing a full volume recovery
Demonstration: Using Windows Server Backup
to Restore a Folder
• In this demonstration, you will see how to use
the Recovery Wizard to restore a folder
Restoring with Windows Azure Online Backup

When restoring files by using Windows Azure Online

Backup, perform the following steps:
1. Select the server
2. Locate the files you want to recover from backup
3. Choose the restore location
4. Select an option for copy creation

Restore
Lab: Implementing Windows Server Backup and
Restore
Exercise 1: Backing Up Data on a Windows Server 2012
Server
Exercise 2: Restoring Files Using Windows Server Backup
• Exercise 3: Implementing Windows Azure Online Backup
and Restore
Logon Information
Virtual Machines: 20412B-LON-DC1
20412B-LON-SVR1
MSL-TMG1
User Name: Adatum\Administrator
Password: Pa$$w0rd

Estimated Time: 60 minutes

Lab Scenario

Much of the data that is stored on the A. Datum Corporation’s

network is extremely valuable to the organization. Losing this
data would be a significant loss to the organization.
Additionally, many of the servers that are running on the
network provide extremely valuable services for the
organization. Because of the significance of the data and
services, it is critical that they can be restored in the event of
disaster.
Datum is considering backing up critical data to a cloud-based
service. A. Datum is also considering this as an option for small
branch offices that do not have a full data center infrastructure.
As one of the senior network administrators at A. Datum, you
need to implement a backup and restore process that can
recover lost data and services.
Lab Review

You are concerned about business-critical data that is

located on your company's servers. You want to perform
backups every day, but not during business hours. What
should you do?
Users report that they can no longer access data that is
located on the server. You connect to the server, and realize
that the shared folder where users were accessing data is
missing. What should you do?
• The servers storing financial data for the organization are
backed up by using Windows Azure Online Backup. One of
the servers has failed and has to be replaced, which could
take one business day. Users have to access financial data
as soon as possible. What should you do?
Module Review and Takeaways

Review Questions
Real-world Issues and Scenarios
Tools
Best Practice
• Common Issues and Troubleshooting Tips
Course Evaluation